Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...essay entitled Appetite and Reason: a Humanistic Theory of Ethics" and Peter Viereck 1G of New York City for an essay entitled "Romanticism and the Surrender to 'Life'". Honorable mention for the graduate prize awards went to William E. Daugherty 2G of David City, Nebraska for a paper entitled "The Meaning of 'Good...
...details were as sordid as the case was significant. Ten years ago strapping, handsome Henry Philip Ewald went to Mobile to become executive editor of a new afternoon paper, the Press. A tireless crusader, Editor Ewald launched campaign after campaign against gambling, political corruption, vice. He not only wrote editorials, but poked & pried into the recesses of Mobile's underworld...
Editor Ewald's crusade was good for his paper. The Press bought out the morning Register and Henry Ewald became editor of both papers. Last fall he went after the lottery racket, spread the front pages of the Register and the Press with pictures of lottery tickets that Mobile's police said they could not find...
...Aledo, Ill, is a careful country doctor. Last week he paid a call, lanced an abscess for a patient and, when he was through, took a proper precaution. He did not put the infected scalpel with the sterilized instruments in his bag. He wrapped it in a piece of paper and put it in his pocket. Then careful Dr. McCreedy went home and, opening his front door, looked down into the laughing face of his 19-month-old daughter, Nancy Irene. He swung her up and clasped her in his arms. That was a fatal move. The infected scalpel...
...tonnage") damned it in a special speech. High schools banned the book; public libraries put it on the restricted shelf. Nicholas Murray Butler sputtered that his derelict professor of politics was aping "the crude, immoral and unhistorical teaching of Karl Marx." Charles Beard urged them to read Federal Paper No. 10, by Founding Father James Madison...